Dear <title> <surname>,

The committee* for the selection of the Haagen-Smit Prize, to be given annually to two outstanding papers published in Atmospheric Environment, has considered all nominations and made their final determination.We are very pleased to announce that the winners of the 2011 Haagen-Smit Prize are:

	Jack G. Calvert, Steve E. Lindberg Mechanisms of mercury removal by O3 and OH in the atmosphere Atmospheric Environment, Volume 39, Issue 18, June 2005, Pages 3355-3367
	Yifang Zhu, William C Hinds, Seongheon Kim, Si Shen, Constantinos Sioutas Study of ultrafine particles near a major highway with heavy-duty diesel traffic Atmospheric Environment, Volume 36, Issue 27, September 2002, Pages 4323-4335

With this announcement we would like to congratulate the authors and the nominators of these selected papers. These are indeed contributions that we can all be proud of.  We would also very much like to thank all the other nominators for their effort and note that unsuccessful nominations are eligible for consideration again next year.

We further take this opportunity to acknowledge the hard work of the selection committee (listed below), made up of members from five countries, in arriving at a clear and timely decision.

Sincerely,

Hanwant B. Singh, Peter Brimblecombe, Chak Chan
Editors-in-Chief, Atmospheric Environment

Bethan Keall
Publisher, Elsevier

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*The 2011 selection committee was as follows:

Prof. John Seinfeld (seinfeld@its.caltech.edu) (USA) (Chair)
Prof. Peter Builtjes (peter.builtjes@tno.nl) (Netherlands)
Prof. Roy M. Harrison (r.m.harrison@bham.ac.uk) (UK)
Prof. Lidia Morawska (l.morawska@qut.edu.au) (Australia)
Prof. Stuart Penkett (m.penkett@uea.ac.uk) (UK)
Prof. Jamie Schauer (jjschauer@wisc.edu ) (USA)
Prof. Barbara Turpin (turpin@envsci.rutgers.edu) (USA)
Prof. Tony Wexler (aswexler@ucdavis.edu) (USA)
Dr. Yoko Yokouchi (yokouchi@nies.go.jp) (Japan)